The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-11
News of the Week.

der-stOrm, at ODerlln, Ohlo, on SUNNY aiIeI-
noon, caused damage estimated at over
$4,000
The total number of cases CT yellow fever
at Key West to date is I3, of which have
resulted fatally. Six patients are sick. and
three convalescent.
The negro who attempted to outrage Mrs.
Park, the mother-in-law of Sheriff }. w. u.
Robinson, of Monroe county, Ark, was
lynched Saturday night. |
A cry of fire in the Cathedral at chihuahua,
Mexico last week, cansed a panic. Three
children and two women were trampled TO
death and sixty other persons injured.
A Young woman in Fonda, N. T., is said
to have gone on hiccoughing for three months
past. except when under the influence OF
opiates, until she is now mere wreck.
Two freight trains collided on Monday night
at n crossing at Shelby, Ohio, and % cars and
2 engines were wrecked, causing loss OF
$4,000. Engineer Lyons was fatally injured.
News has been received at Manson, Iowa,
that Rev. Dr. Reid, who left that place last
winter to become missionary in Central
Africa, had been killed and eaten by tribe
of cannibals.
Alfred Garfield, James Cullen and Norman
Bell were killed by premature blast in a
quarry at Binnewater, Ulster county, New
York, on Saturday. Several others were IN
iured, one fatally.
The storm at 0berlin, Ohio, on Sunday,
carried away nearly all the town bridges, and
the water flooded four of the streets to depth
of several feet. About fifty houses and the
gas works were flooded.
About forty employees of the Government
Printing Office were discharged, and one
hundred furloughed last week. This was
done to keep the expenditures within the
limit for the current quarter.
News has been received in QUEBEC OF
severe earthquake recently felt in County
L'Islet. Pieces of rock forty TO fifty feet
SQUARE were thrown from the mountains, and
some large forest trees were uprooted.
adelayed" explosion at the Cambria Iron
Company's quarries at Birmingham, near AL
toona, Penna, on Saturday afternoon, result
ed in the death of eight men. Five others
were injured, one of them, it is believed,
fatally
A letter from Santiago de Cuba, dated the
81 ult., reports nearly 400 cases Of smallpox
there. The deaths from the LIST ult. had num-
bered 40, all the victims having been unvac-
cinated. The disease had appeared at Guam
tanamo.
Gathering potato bugs is quite lucrative
business in parts of Virginia, and as high as
81 day is earned by some of the women en-.
gagged in it. Compensation is at the rate of
FIVE cents per ''yeast powder can full OF the
insects.
A terrific thunder storm visited Cincinnati
on Sunday afternoon, and disabled 400 tele-
phone instruments by melting the wires.
Much debris was washed from the hillsides
into the highways. Cellars in Newport were
filled with water.
1t took Green River City On. Y couple
| lust thirty minutes to form an acquaintance,
conduct a courtship and finish off with mar
riage. The scene Of this speedy performance
was restaurant, where the bride officiated as
waitress. The groom was a transient Gus
toner.
Five boys-three sons of John Beck and
two Of Paul Hindel-whose ages range from
nine to sixteen years, were drowned while
bathing near Maquoketa, Iowa, on Monday.
Three Of them got off sand bar beyond their
depth, and the other two persisted in trying to
| save them,
| In the city court at Paducah, Kentucky, on
| Thursday, "Mollien jackson, a white woman,
was convicted of vagraney, and Judge Thomas
ordered that she be sold to the highest bidder
| for thirty days The sale will be made as
soon as the advertisement has been issued.
This is in accordance with Kentucky law.
i Inc DOllef OF IOcOHlOtlEe On lHe Ddlti-
more and Ohio Railroad burst on Tuesday
morning in front of the passenger station at
! Chester Penna Joseph w. McCane, aged
| 10 years. was killed, and ten persons were
| injured, one, named John Murphy, danger
ously. The station building and shedding
were badly damaged.
| A twenty five mile horse race was run at
San Francisco recently, and was won by one
| Anderson, who covered the distance i'll one
hour eleven and half minutes. His only
opponent was disabled while mounting for the
second mile. According to the conditions
| the contestants we're to have FIVE horses
apiece, and to change animals after each
1 mile.
| Ex-Vice- President William A. Wheeler
/ died ut Malone, New York, last Saturday,
aged nearly GS years Mr.. Wheeler was born
at Malone on June 30, 1919. He was school
teacher in early life, then studied law and
| went into politics. He arose rapidly. but the
| Fraud of 1876 ended his career, and after re-
| firing from the Vice Presidency, to which he
was not elected, he has lived in retirement.
/ William Murray, saloon keeper of Chica-
go, was arrested on Saturday night on the
charge of being one of gang of masked burg
/ lars who, six years ago, broke into the house
of Allan Fairbanks at Wheaton, and, by hold
| ing lighted matches to the feet of the inmates,
compelled the disclosure Of where $4,000 in
Government bonds were concealed. Murray,
few days ago, attempted to sell some of the
| bonds.
A terrible tragedy is reported near Owasso,
Michigan, Alexander Holmes had house
keeper who recently married Daniel Fulton,
| against Holmes wishes. Holmes ordered
Fulton to discontinue his visits to the house.
This angered Fulton, who got drunk, attacked
his wife with knife, and cut off her head,
stabbed Holmes to death, and was subsequent
\ ly found in the woods with his own throat cut,
but still living.
In New York city on Sunday, Captain
| Williams, of the Police Department, with wit
nesses, went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the
st. James Hotel and the Gilsey House, and
were served with wine. Three test cases as
to the legality of service by hotels of liquors
to guests on Sunday have thus begun. One
F! hotel on the American and two on the Euro
/ pean plan have been chosen. Captain Will
liams will now swear out warrants, and on
Monday afternoon doubtless the walters will
be arraigned.
A resolution, adopted by the Masonic
| Grand Lodge Of Missouri in 1882. declaring
| LIQUOR selling unmasonic and members of the
/ order engaged in the business liable to ex-
pulsion, has been virtually ignored until now,
when the Grand Master promulgates the rul-
ing among the lodges in that State, and calls
for the suspension Of those members who
come within the prescription. In St. Louis,
where there are said to be not less than one
hundred prominent Masons affected by the
order, the agitation is said to be lively.
W. w. Corcoran, the millionaire philan-
thropist of Washington, was stricken with pa
ralysis of the left arm and left leg while at his
dinner table on Monday afternoon. He felt
as if suddenly struck on the head, and then
found that be could not use the affected limbs.
A consultation of physicians was held the
same evening, but the prognosis was not I'M
favorable, there having been no noticeable
advance of the paralysis and Mr.. Corcoran's
mind being perfectly clear. The distinguished
patient is in the S9th year of his age.
AT Erie, Pa, on Sunday, tue coroner was
called to hold an inquest on the body of John
Lyons, aged IS years. Lyons lay in the
middle of'the room, where he had died the
day before Of drunkenness. Near him lay
his wife in drunken stupor. In shed lay
little four year old grandchild, dying from
poison. 1t had been sick for several days,
and in its extremity had eaten poisonous
weed which grew near the shed. The grand
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